Shore, Forest and Beyond ART FROM THE AUDAIN COLLECTION - Vancouver Art Gallery

Work from gallery artists Dana Claxton, Angela Grossmann and Attila Richard Lukacs will be on display at the Vancouver Art Gallery in the exhibition, Shore, Forest and Beyond. The exhibition gathers works from the Collection of Michael Audain and Yoshiko Karasawa who are amongst Canada’s most prominent and committed patrons of the arts. 

 

“The role of private collectors in the art world has always been essential to both artists and museums. Private collections are formed in a variety of ways, yet some achieve particular distinction for their depth, breadth and quality. The works assembled by Michael Audain and Yoshiko Karasawa over the last two decades form one of the most important private holdings of work by First Nations and non-First Nations British Columbia artists. The Audains have created a collection that allows a particularly rich history of the art of British Columbia to be told.”

Shore, Forest and Beyond
ART FROM THE AUDAIN COLLECTION

Vancouver Art Gallery

October 29, 2011 to January 29, 2012

http://www.vanartgallery.bc.ca/the_exhibitions/exhibit_audain_collection.html

CROSSING OVER; PAINTING A CRITICAL CONVERSATION - A SYMPOSIUM

Please join Landon Mackenzie and Glen Lowry in conversation for a public talk entitled Painting a Critical Conversation in conjunction with Landon Mackenzie’s exhibition Crossing Over, Why Cloud the Whites currently on display at the Richmond Art Gallery. The talk will also include a presentation by artist Dennis Burke, Soundsacpe to Painting and a symposium on painting at Emily Carr University.     

 

PART 1 

Richmond Art Gallery - Thursday October 20, 7-9 PM -Doors open 6:30

Landon Mackenzie and Glen Lowry in
conversation followed by Dennis Burke
with Soundscape to Paintings.

 Richmond Art Gallery
7700 Minotru Gate, Richmond
In the Richmond Cultural Centre
www.richmondartgallery.org
604 247 8300

PART 2
Emily Carr Univesity of Art + Design - Friday October 21, 4:15-10 PM - Doors open 4:00


Four Sets of Conversations with Damian
Moppett, Neil Campbell, Elizabeth
McIntosh, Allan Switzer, Vanessa
Disler, Ben Reeves, Eli Bornowsky,
Jesse Garbe, Sean Weisgerber, Tiffin
Breen and more.

Emily Carr University of Art + Design
1399 Johnston Street, Granville Island
In the Theatre, SB 301
www.ecuad.ca
604 844 3800

Attila Richard Lukacs from the Salah J. Bachir Collection

Winsor Gallery is pleased to announce the publication of  Attila Richard Lukacs from the Salah J. Bachir Collection, from ABC Art Books Canada. 

“Attila Richard Lukacs is a Vancouver-based artist who was catapulted to international attention in the early 1990s for his monumental, sexually charged canvases drawing on the traditions of European history painting. His large-scale paintings and, in particular, his provocative treatment of the male nude added an element of notoriety to his critically-designated status as a contemporary master of figurative art. More recently, Lukacs has exhibited an extraordinary series of hundreds of Polaroid photographic studies of the numerous studio models that have informed these very works.”

“Salah J. Bachir is Lukacs’s primary collector. This major publication lushly illustrates Bachir’s entire collection of Lukacs pieces, including many of the artist’s most well-known paintings, Polaroids and collages created over the last three decades. Essays by Scott Watson, John Bentley Mays, Robert Enright and Louise Dompierre, which were originally published at pivotal moments in Lukacs’s career, are accompanied by an original essay by Melissa Bennett on the artist, his career, the collection and the genesis of this publication project.”

http://www.abcartbookscanada.com

ANNOUNCEMENT - Gary Pearson - The Waiter Joke & Berlin Jazz Story

Sturgeon Hall, 8 PM on Tuesday, October 18, 2011 

Gallery Artist Gary Pearson will premier a new video work, The Waiter Joke.

“Comprised of a five language performance cycle The Waiter Joke is an exploration of the entertaining nuances of the waiter – customer relationship.”

Production still for The Waiter Joke, 2011, Color, 07:24 minutes

In addition, Gary Pearson will also screen Berlin Jazz Story, a video narrative.

“The journalistic overtones of Berlin Jazz Story establish the narrative flow of this entertaining and thought provoking production. Incorporating references to such diverse sources as music video, Film Noir, documentary genres, and Brechtian theatre, this ‘jazz story’ creates a complex and stylistically textured portrayal of the human drama and urban nightlife.”

  Production still for Berlin Jazz Story, 2000, Color, 20:30 minutes

To take place at:

8 PM on Tuesday, October 18, 2011

Sturgeon Hall, 

1481 Water Street

Kelowna BC, Canada